... the as homophoric and cataphoric reference as in these uses the is mostly attached to the noun phrase it refers to as a structure. For example, the headmaster of my school, the King, the ... setting, the learners may be forced to perform tasks they do not want or their linguistic competence fail to meet; therefore, they fall back on the language most familiar to them that is their mother ... ‘Demonstrative there is to be distinguished from the pronoun there as in there is a man at the door’ (Haliday and Hasan, 1976:74). Clearly, there in the examples is not a pronoun as no adverbs...